Ardent for Some Desperate Glory- Remembering World War I
When:
Monday, Oct 06, 2014 8:00a -
Friday, Dec 26, 2014 10:00p
Monday, Oct 06, 2014 8:00a -
Friday, Dec 26, 2014 10:00p
Where:
Mugar Library
771 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, University
Event website:
www.bu.edu/archives
The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center announces the opening of its most recent exhibition, Ardent for Some Desperate Glory – Remembering the First World War. Marking the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war, this extensive exhibition includes posters and photographs demonstrating many issues of the time, as well as the vast collection of manuscript material depicting the major upheaval in the world during the Great War. The exhibition examines the fortitude, sacrifice and ingenuity of those who participated in World War I.
Featured are rare photographs, letters, maps, literature and newspapers from The Great War. Some of the highlights include, Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe (a British press baron) describing his mission to the United States to secure more supplies, funding and general support for the war effort, and his noted meeting with Thomas Edison and Henry Ford; a number of poems by Wilfred Owen (soldier and noted poet), such as The Sentry and Exposure in which he describes the reality of war, and a letter from Owen to Sir Francis Osbert Sechevarell Sitwell; a letter from John P. Marquand, describing the often harrowing combat experiences on the front line in France; a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Guy Emerson, U.S. Secretary for the Committee Publicity, Liberty Loan Committee, promising to do all he can to support the Liberty Loan; letters and photos from soldier Vinton Dearing to his mother from the front lines in France. She received the last telegram from him on July 9, 1918, the day before he was killed in the Second Battle of the Marne.
The exhibition also highlights collections from the Gotlieb Center nursing archives featuring Marion Parsons, Ethel Brooks, Theresa Muller, and Alice Lucinda Kelley depicting the Red Cross’s role during WWI and the nurses who served on the Front working with the wounded.
The exhibit is on display in the Gotlieb Memorial Gallery in Mugar Library 771 Commonwealth, Avenue. Boston, MA www.bu.edu/archives
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